{"id":4268,"date":"2014-04-24T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/24\/uk-government-no-reason-why-mp3-resale-shouldnt-be-legal\/"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:29:48","slug":"uk-government-no-reason-why-mp3-resale-shouldnt-be-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/04\/24\/uk-government-no-reason-why-mp3-resale-shouldnt-be-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government: ‘No reason’ why MP3 resale shouldn’t be legal"},"content":{"rendered":"


The UK Government has seemingly backed the peer-to-peer resale of digital entertainment files – so long as the seller deletes their ‘copy’.The news comes out of the current EU Commission consultation on copyright reform, part of which involves a debate on the sort of digital reselling carried out by ReDigi in the US. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs regards the resale of copies, the UK notes that traditional secondary markets for goods can encourage both initial purchase and adoption of technologies, and the prospect of sale on the secondary market may be factored in to an initial decision to buy and to market prices,\u201d the UK Government response reads<\/p>\n

\u201cThere seems to be no reason why this should not be the case for digital copies, except for the \u2018forward and delete\u2019 issue noted by the consultation,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n

International record label group the IFPI is arguing the case for digital file resales to be banned, claiming that digital files differ significantly to resold physical entertainment. Its main counter-argument is that legal physical resale only ever involves the original product, rather than a copy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the recorded music sector, the consequences of enabling the resale of digital content would have very harmful consequences for the entire music market,\u201d IFPI said in its submission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion that the exhaustion principle should apply to copies acquired by means of digital transmissions in the same way that it applies to physical copies ignores the many differences between the two kinds of copies and between the two distribution processes.”<\/p>\n

The BPI, Sony Music and Universal Music all submitted similar arguments to the EU.<\/p>\n

Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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